"Using Semantic Technologies to Create Virtual Families from Historical Vital Records" Presented at the 1st European Ontology Network (EUON) Workshop collocated with EUDAT 2014. Presentation was given in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on the 25th of September, 2014.
Creating and Consuming Metadata from Transcribed Historical Vital Records for...Christophe Debruyne
Dolores Grant, Christophe Debruyne, Rebecca Grant, Sandra Collins:
Creating and Consuming Metadata from Transcribed Historical Vital Records for Ingestion in a Long-Term Digital Preservation Platform - (Short Paper). OTM Workshops 2015: 445-450
Publishing open data and services for the Flemish Research Information SpaceChristophe Debruyne
Debruyne, C., De Leenheer, P., Spyns, P., van Grootel, G., Christiaens, S. (2011) Publishing open data and services for the Flemish Research Information Space. In Proc. of the International Conference on Conceptual Modelling 2011: ER Workshops (ER 2011), LNCS, Springer
Abstract. The Flemish public administration aims to integrate and publish all research information on a portal. Information is currently stored according to the CERIF standard modeled in (E)ER and aimed at extensibility. Solutions exist to easily publish data from databases in RDF, but ontologies need to be constructed to render those meaningful. In order to publish their data, the public administration and other stakeholders first need to agree on a shared understanding of what exactly is captured and stored in that format. In this paper, we show how the use of the Business Semantics Management method and tool contributed in achieving that aim.
Semantic Interoperation of Information Systems by Evolving Ontologies through...Christophe Debruyne
Presentation of Debruyne, C., and Meersman, R. (2011) Semantic Interoperation of Information Systems by Evolving Ontologies through Formalized Social Processes. In Proc. of Advances in Databases and Information Systems 2011 (ADBIS 2011) - September 2011
Abstract: For autonomously developed information systems to interoperate in a meaningful manner, ontologies capturing the intended semantics of that interoperation have to be developed by a community of stakeholders in those information systems. As the requirements of the ontology and the ontology itself evolve, so in general will the community, and vice versa. Ontology construction should thus be viewed as a complex activity leading to formalized semantic agreement involving various social processes within the community, and that may translate into a number of ontology evolution operators to be implemented. The hybrid ontologies that emerge in this way indeed need to support both the social agreement processes in the stakeholder communities and the eventual reasoning implemented in the information systems that are governed by these ontologies. In this paper, we discuss formal aspects of the social processes involved, a so-called fact-oriented methodology and formalism to structure and describe these, as well as certain relevant aspects of the communities in which they occur. We also report on a prototypical tool set that supports such a methodology, and on examples of some early experiments.
Presentation to the Metadata Developer Network Workshop 2014 (MDN Workshop 2014), 4th of June 2014, Geneva, Switzerland.
Also available on http://www.slideshare.net/dri_ireland
Abstract: In this presentation, we report on our experience using the EBU Core OWL ontology for annotating audiovisual archival content stored in an EBU Core XML Schema compliant tool used by RTÉ, the national public service broadcaster of the Republic of Ireland. We first describe the goal of the project and elaborate on the role of Semantic Web ontologies and technologies. We continue with a report on some of the challenges while using the EBU Core OWL ontology. We finally formulate several recommendations on the conceptual model and the ontology development method.
Creating and Consuming Metadata from Transcribed Historical Vital Records for...Christophe Debruyne
Dolores Grant, Christophe Debruyne, Rebecca Grant, Sandra Collins:
Creating and Consuming Metadata from Transcribed Historical Vital Records for Ingestion in a Long-Term Digital Preservation Platform - (Short Paper). OTM Workshops 2015: 445-450
Publishing open data and services for the Flemish Research Information SpaceChristophe Debruyne
Debruyne, C., De Leenheer, P., Spyns, P., van Grootel, G., Christiaens, S. (2011) Publishing open data and services for the Flemish Research Information Space. In Proc. of the International Conference on Conceptual Modelling 2011: ER Workshops (ER 2011), LNCS, Springer
Abstract. The Flemish public administration aims to integrate and publish all research information on a portal. Information is currently stored according to the CERIF standard modeled in (E)ER and aimed at extensibility. Solutions exist to easily publish data from databases in RDF, but ontologies need to be constructed to render those meaningful. In order to publish their data, the public administration and other stakeholders first need to agree on a shared understanding of what exactly is captured and stored in that format. In this paper, we show how the use of the Business Semantics Management method and tool contributed in achieving that aim.
Semantic Interoperation of Information Systems by Evolving Ontologies through...Christophe Debruyne
Presentation of Debruyne, C., and Meersman, R. (2011) Semantic Interoperation of Information Systems by Evolving Ontologies through Formalized Social Processes. In Proc. of Advances in Databases and Information Systems 2011 (ADBIS 2011) - September 2011
Abstract: For autonomously developed information systems to interoperate in a meaningful manner, ontologies capturing the intended semantics of that interoperation have to be developed by a community of stakeholders in those information systems. As the requirements of the ontology and the ontology itself evolve, so in general will the community, and vice versa. Ontology construction should thus be viewed as a complex activity leading to formalized semantic agreement involving various social processes within the community, and that may translate into a number of ontology evolution operators to be implemented. The hybrid ontologies that emerge in this way indeed need to support both the social agreement processes in the stakeholder communities and the eventual reasoning implemented in the information systems that are governed by these ontologies. In this paper, we discuss formal aspects of the social processes involved, a so-called fact-oriented methodology and formalism to structure and describe these, as well as certain relevant aspects of the communities in which they occur. We also report on a prototypical tool set that supports such a methodology, and on examples of some early experiments.
Presentation to the Metadata Developer Network Workshop 2014 (MDN Workshop 2014), 4th of June 2014, Geneva, Switzerland.
Also available on http://www.slideshare.net/dri_ireland
Abstract: In this presentation, we report on our experience using the EBU Core OWL ontology for annotating audiovisual archival content stored in an EBU Core XML Schema compliant tool used by RTÉ, the national public service broadcaster of the Republic of Ireland. We first describe the goal of the project and elaborate on the role of Semantic Web ontologies and technologies. We continue with a report on some of the challenges while using the EBU Core OWL ontology. We finally formulate several recommendations on the conceptual model and the ontology development method.
Business Semantics as an Interface between Enterprise Information Management.Christophe Debruyne
Business Semantics as an Interface between
Enterprise Information Management and the
Web of Data:
A Case Study in the Flemish Public Administration
Christophe Debruyne and Pieter De Leenheer eBISS, July 2012
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Towards Linked Vital Registration Data for Reconstituting Families and Creati...dri_ireland
Presentation by Christophe Debruyne to the 6th International Workshop on Knowledge representation for Health Care (KR4HC 2014), Vienna, Austria. July 21, 2014. Authors: Oya Beyan, Ciara Breathnach, Sandra Collins, Christophe Debruyne, Stefan Decker, Dolores Grant, Rebecca Grant, and Brian Gurrin.
Towards linked vital registration data for reconstituting families and creati...IRL_Project
Presentation by Christophe Debruyne to the 6th International Workshop on Knowledge representation for Health Care (KR4HC 2014), Vienna, Austria. July 21, 2014. Authors: Oya Beyan, Ciara Breathnach, Sandra Collins, Christophe Debruyne, Stefan Decker, Dolores Grant, Rebecca Grant, and Brian Gurrin.
Rebecca Grant - Approaching Archival Authenticity: when 'Records' become 'Data.dri_ireland
This presentation was given by Rebecca Grant, Digital Archivist at the Digital Repository of Ireland, at the annual Archives and Records Association (UK and Ireland) conference in Dublin, Wednesday 26th August 2016. It discusses the issues of archival authenticity that came up during the Irish Record Linkage project and how these issues were addressed.
Co-authors: Dolores Grant, Dr Sharon Webb, Dr Sandra Collins
Rebecca Grant & Dolores Grant - Data Archiving for the Irish Record Linkage P...dri_ireland
Presentation given Rebecca Grant, DRI Digital Archivist, and Dolores Grant, IRL-DRI Digital Archivist, at the Irish Record Linkage workshop held at the University of Limerick, 10th February 2016. It gives an overview of the Irish Research Council funded Irish Record Linkage project, focusing on how digital data archiving was undertaken by the partners at the Digital Repository of Ireland.
Beyond Preservation: Situating Archaeological Data in Professional PracticeEric Kansa
I presented this lecture at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin on Nov. 6, 2014 (see: http://www.dainst.org/termin/-/event-display/ogNX4Gtxkd87/342513)
The lecture focuses on how archaeological data fits in professional practice. It looks at scholarly communications, government policies toward the sciences and humanities, and professional reward structures.
The lecture then shows examples of how Open Context publishes archeological data, including editorial processes to promote data quality and relate contributed data to the 'Web of Data' using Linked Open Data methods. Research applications of Open Context and linked archaeological data include the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) project (see: http://ux.opencontext.org/blog/archaeology-site-data/) and a data integration study exploring the development and dispersal of animal husbandry economies in Epipaleolithic - Chalcolithic Anatolia (see: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099845)
The lecture concludes with how archaeologists need to invest more intellectually in the method and theory of modeling and creating data. It also looks at how concepts and expectations of publishing static artifacts need to be revised (using techniques like version control) to enable continued and more transparent revision of data to fix problems, implement new standards, and meet new research goals.
Part 1 of 2 presentations on FamilySearch. This one covers basic search, finding records online and in the catalog, indexing, genealogy trees and books.
Slides of the paper Tribunal Archives as Digital Research Facility (TRIADO): new ways to make archives accessible and useable by Anne Gorter, Edwin Klijn, Rutger Van Koert, Marielle Scherer and Ismee Tames at the 3rd Edition of the DATeCH2019 International Conference
Business Semantics as an Interface between Enterprise Information Management.Christophe Debruyne
Business Semantics as an Interface between
Enterprise Information Management and the
Web of Data:
A Case Study in the Flemish Public Administration
Christophe Debruyne and Pieter De Leenheer eBISS, July 2012
Technology Review | In Focus: Next Generation Service ManagementComarch
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Recognize your students for individual achievement
by easily creating personalized Certificates and Awards!
http://www.fonts4teachers.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=am4t
With this program all you have to do is type a letter or a word and you will see the magic unfold: incredible practice worksheets will be made in seconds. See letters with dots, arrows, lines or a combination of all of them!
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Welcome your students and make them feel important by personalizing their names with decorative bright Name Tags!
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Towards Linked Vital Registration Data for Reconstituting Families and Creati...dri_ireland
Presentation by Christophe Debruyne to the 6th International Workshop on Knowledge representation for Health Care (KR4HC 2014), Vienna, Austria. July 21, 2014. Authors: Oya Beyan, Ciara Breathnach, Sandra Collins, Christophe Debruyne, Stefan Decker, Dolores Grant, Rebecca Grant, and Brian Gurrin.
Towards linked vital registration data for reconstituting families and creati...IRL_Project
Presentation by Christophe Debruyne to the 6th International Workshop on Knowledge representation for Health Care (KR4HC 2014), Vienna, Austria. July 21, 2014. Authors: Oya Beyan, Ciara Breathnach, Sandra Collins, Christophe Debruyne, Stefan Decker, Dolores Grant, Rebecca Grant, and Brian Gurrin.
Rebecca Grant - Approaching Archival Authenticity: when 'Records' become 'Data.dri_ireland
This presentation was given by Rebecca Grant, Digital Archivist at the Digital Repository of Ireland, at the annual Archives and Records Association (UK and Ireland) conference in Dublin, Wednesday 26th August 2016. It discusses the issues of archival authenticity that came up during the Irish Record Linkage project and how these issues were addressed.
Co-authors: Dolores Grant, Dr Sharon Webb, Dr Sandra Collins
Rebecca Grant & Dolores Grant - Data Archiving for the Irish Record Linkage P...dri_ireland
Presentation given Rebecca Grant, DRI Digital Archivist, and Dolores Grant, IRL-DRI Digital Archivist, at the Irish Record Linkage workshop held at the University of Limerick, 10th February 2016. It gives an overview of the Irish Research Council funded Irish Record Linkage project, focusing on how digital data archiving was undertaken by the partners at the Digital Repository of Ireland.
Beyond Preservation: Situating Archaeological Data in Professional PracticeEric Kansa
I presented this lecture at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin on Nov. 6, 2014 (see: http://www.dainst.org/termin/-/event-display/ogNX4Gtxkd87/342513)
The lecture focuses on how archaeological data fits in professional practice. It looks at scholarly communications, government policies toward the sciences and humanities, and professional reward structures.
The lecture then shows examples of how Open Context publishes archeological data, including editorial processes to promote data quality and relate contributed data to the 'Web of Data' using Linked Open Data methods. Research applications of Open Context and linked archaeological data include the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) project (see: http://ux.opencontext.org/blog/archaeology-site-data/) and a data integration study exploring the development and dispersal of animal husbandry economies in Epipaleolithic - Chalcolithic Anatolia (see: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099845)
The lecture concludes with how archaeologists need to invest more intellectually in the method and theory of modeling and creating data. It also looks at how concepts and expectations of publishing static artifacts need to be revised (using techniques like version control) to enable continued and more transparent revision of data to fix problems, implement new standards, and meet new research goals.
Part 1 of 2 presentations on FamilySearch. This one covers basic search, finding records online and in the catalog, indexing, genealogy trees and books.
Slides of the paper Tribunal Archives as Digital Research Facility (TRIADO): new ways to make archives accessible and useable by Anne Gorter, Edwin Klijn, Rutger Van Koert, Marielle Scherer and Ismee Tames at the 3rd Edition of the DATeCH2019 International Conference
While “big data” allow researchers to capture detailed accounts of social behavior, generalized inference from these data are fundamentally limited by temporal censoring. “Long data” gleaned from historical archives capture patterns of behavior going back decades or centuries and allow us to analyze the evolution of institutions that have shaped and been shaped by major historical events. Organizations publish annual records like historical directories going back centuries that contain rich relational data about affiliations and appointments about populations with well-defined boundaries. Using data from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress and Annuario Pontificio of the Roman Catholic Church, we identify a variety of interactions related to co-location, affiliation, and relationships for two influential institutions going back to the late eighteenth century. We identify regularities in the structures of these networks across time and compare changes in these networks as they react to major events such as wars and long-term historical trends such as industrialization and globalization. Our findings have implications for prevailing historical and sociological interpretations of social structure as well as for forecasting changes to these influential institutions.
Big Data Past, Present and Future – Where are we Headed? - StampedeCon 2014StampedeCon
At StampedeCon 2014, Rob Peglar (EMC Isilon) presented "Big Data Past, Present and Future – Where are we Headed?"
Rob Peglar was one of the speakers at the very first StampedeCon. Following that talk two years ago, Rob will present an overview of and insight into the technologies and system approaches to computing, transport and storage of big data – where we’ve been, are now and are headed. There is a major ‘fork in the road’ upcoming in the treatment and business application of big data and the technology that surrounds it, one that is important enough to change the course of the methodologies and approaches used by large and small business alike, especially for the infrastructure required either on premise or in the cloud.
Open Context and Publishing to the Web of Data: Eric Kansa's LAWDI Presentationekansa
This presentation discusses how a model of “data sharing as publishing” can contribute to developing Linked Open Data resources in archaeology and the study of the ancient world. The paper gives examples from Open Context’s developing approach to data editing, documentation and quality improvement processes. The goal of these efforts is to better align the professional interests of individual researchers with the needs of the larger community to access and use high-quality data in Linked Data scenarios.
Slides from keynote lecture by Andrew Prescott to the 7th Herrenhausen conference of the Volkswagen Foundation, 'Big Data in a Transdisciplinary Perspective'
Daniel Wilksch, Coordinator, Digital Projects, Public Record Office Victoria (PROV), discusses the digital strategy of the PROV and the ways they have made their existing collections into new and exciting online exhibitions to excite and engage users. Daniel will discuss balancing the need for presenting curated records and stories with attention to whole-of-collection data, and how the PROV have become world renown for their web architecture and online strategy
BURPing Through RML Test Cases (presented at KGC Workshop @ ESWC 2024)KGChristophe Debruyne
Recently, the W3C Community Group on Knowledge Graph Construction created a suite of test cases for all RML modules developed in the Community Group to verify implementations’ compliance with the new RML specifications. However, these RML test cases could not be tested because no existing RML Processor supports them. In this paper, we report on our process of testing the new RML test cases while at the same time implementing support for the new RML modules in a reference implementation, which we call `BURP' (Basic and Unassuming RML Processor), to investigate the feasibility and possible mistakes of the new RML test cases and specifications. We found several problems in the RML modules, ranging from mismatches between the test cases and their specification and invalid SHACL shapes to edge cases not covered by the specifications. Through this work, we improve the quality of RML test cases and the coverage of their corresponding specifications to increase adoption and conformance among RML Processors.
One year of DALIDA Data Literacy Workshops for Adults: a ReportChristophe Debruyne
Christophe Debruyne, Laura Grehan, Mairéad Hurley, Anne Kearns, Ciaran O'Neill. One year of DALIDA Data Literacy Workshops for Adults: a Report. In Frédérique Laforest, Raphaël Troncy, Elena Simperl, Deepak Agarwal, Aristides Gionis, Ivan Herman, and Lionel Médini, editors, Companion of The Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event / Lyon, France, April 25 - 29, 2022, pages 403-407. ACM, 2022
Projet TOXIN : Des graphes de connaissances pour la recherche en toxicologieChristophe Debruyne
Christophe Debruyne. Projet TOXIN : Des graphes de connaissances pour la recherche en toxicologie. INRS Symposium on "L'informatique au service de l'évaluation du risque chimique" (10 November 2022, Nancy, France)
Knowledge Graphs: Concept, mogelijkheden en aandachtspuntenChristophe Debruyne
Kennis en informatie in een bedrijfsorganisatorische context zijn doorgaans versnipperd en verspreid over databases, rekenbladen, documenten, etc. Daarnaast bezitten kenniswerkers ook domeinexpertise die niet in een systeem wordt opgeslagen. Maar wat als men die kennis en informatie wenst te integreren om, bijvoorbeeld, processen te automatiseren of nieuwe inzichten te verwerven?
Knowledge graphs bieden hiervoor een oplossing. In deze presentatie werpt Christophe Debruyne zijn licht op het concept van de knowledge graphs en hun mogelijkheden. Hij behandelt daarvoor de volgende punten:
Wat is een knowledge graph?
Knowledge graphs versus andere initiatieven
Knowledge graphs versus andere AI technieken
Toepassingsgebied van knowledge graphs
Bouwen en onderhouden van een knowledge graph
SAI.be avondseminarie van 16-11-2021
Reusable SHACL Constraint Components for Validating Geospatial Linked DataChristophe Debruyne
Reusable SHACL Constraint Components for Validating Geospatial Linked Data. Paper presented at the 4th International Workshop on Geospatial Linked Data (GeoLD 2021)
Dr Christophe Debruyne and Dr Lynn Kilgallon showcase this exciting Computer Science research strand in Beyond 2022’s work, demonstrating its potential for changing the questions we can ask of the recovered records, and the hidden stories it can reveal.
Facilitating Data Curation: a Solution Developed in the Toxicology DomainChristophe Debruyne
Christophe Debruyne, Jonathan Riggio, Emma Gustafson, Declan O'Sullivan, Mathieu Vinken, Tamara Vanhaecke, Olga De Troyer.
Presented at the 2020 IEEE 14th International Conference on Semantic Computing, San Diego, California, 3-5 February 2020
Toxicology aims to understand the adverse effects of
chemical compounds or physical agents on living organisms. For
chemicals, much information regarding safety testing of cosmetic
ingredients is now scattered in a plethora of safety evaluation
reports. Toxicologists in our university intend to collect this
information into a single repository. Their current approach uses
spreadsheets, does not scale well, and makes data curation and
querying cumbersome. Semantic technologies (e.g., RDF, OWL,
and Linked Data principles) would be more appropriate for
this purpose. However, this technology is not very accessible to
toxicologists without extensive training. In this paper, we report
on a tool that supports subject matter experts in the construction
of an RDF–based knowledge base for the toxicology domain. The
tool is using the jigsaw metaphor for guiding the subject matter
experts. We demonstrate that the jigsaw metaphor is a viable
option for generating RDF. Future work includes investigating
appropriate methods and tools for knowledge evolution and data
analysis.
Linked Data Publication and Interlinking Research within the SFI funded ADAPT...Christophe Debruyne
Linked Data Publication and Interlinking Research within the SFI funded ADAPT Centre. This presentation was given at the LIBER LOD workshop during the 48th LIBER Annual Conference is in Dublin, 26-28 June 2019.
"Towards GeneratingPolicy-compliant Datasets" by Christophe Debruyne, Harshvardhan J. Pandit, Dave Lewis, Declan O’Sullivan. Presented at the The 13th IEEE International Conference on SEMANTIC COMPUTING
Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2019, Newport Beach, California
"Towards GeneratingPolicy-compliant Datasets" by Christophe Debruyne, Harshvardhan J. Pandit, Dave Lewis, Declan O’Sullivan. Presented at the The 13th IEEE International Conference on SEMANTIC COMPUTING
Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2019, Newport Beach, California
Generating Executable Mappings from RDF Data Cube Data Structure DefinitionsChristophe Debruyne
Data processing is increasingly the subject of various internal and external regulations, such as GDPR which has recently come into effect. Instead of assuming that such processes avail of data sources (such as files and relational databases), we approach the problem in a more abstract manner and view these processes as taking datasets as input. These datasets are then created by pulling data from various data sources. Taking a W3C Recommendation for prescribing the structure of and for describing datasets, we investigate an extension of that vocabulary for the generation of executable R2RML mappings. This results in a top-down approach where one prescribes the dataset to be used by a data process and where to find the data, and where that prescription is subsequently used to retrieve the data for the creation of the dataset “just in time”. We argue that this approach to the generation of an R2RML mapping from a dataset description is the first step towards policy-aware mappings, where the generation takes into account regulations to generate mappings that are compliant. In this paper, we describe how one can obtain an R2RML mapping from a data structure definition in a declarative manner using SPARQL CONSTRUCT queries, and demonstrate it using a running example. Some of the more technical aspects are also described.
Reference: Christophe Debruyne, Dave Lewis, Declan O'Sullivan: Generating Executable Mappings from RDF Data Cube Data Structure Definitions. OTM Conferences (2) 2018: 333-350
A Lightweight Approach to Explore, Enrich and Use Data with a Geospatial Dime...Christophe Debruyne
Paper presentation: Christophe Debruyne, Kris McGlinn, Lorraine McNerney and Declan O'Sullivan: A Lightweight Approach to Explore, Enrich and Use Data with a Geospatial Dimension with Semantic Web Technologies. Presented at the Fourth International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Managing and Mining Enriched Geo-Spatial Data GeoRich 2017 Co-located with SIGMOD/PODS 2017 in Chicago, IL, USA
Client-side Processing of GeoSPARQL Functions with Triple Pattern FragmentsChristophe Debruyne
Christophe Debruyne, Éamonn Clinton, Declan O'Sullivan: Client-side Processing of GeoSPARQL Functions with Triple Pattern Fragments. Presented at the Linked Data on the Web (LDOW 2017), colocated with the 26th International World Wide Web Conference, 2017 (WWW 2017)
Available at: http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2017/papers/LDOW_2017_paper_8.pdf
Presentation about the collaboration between ADAPT and the Ordnance Survey Ireland at Linked Data Seminar -- Culture, Base Registries & Visualisations held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on the 2nd of December 2016
Serving Ireland's Geospatial Information as Linked Data (ISWC 2016 Poster)Christophe Debruyne
Christophe Debruyne, Eamonn Clinton, Lorraine McNerney, Atul Nautiyal, Declan O'Sullivan:
Serving Ireland's Geospatial Information as Linked Data. International Semantic Web Conference (Posters & Demos) 2016
We present data.geohive.ie, which aims to provide an authoritative
platform for serving Ireland’s national geospatial data, including Linked Data. Currently, the platform provides information on Irish administrative boundaries and was designed to support two use cases: serving boundary data of geographic features at various level of detail and capturing the evolution of administrative boundaries. We report on the decisions taken for modeling and serving the data such as the adoption of an appropriate URI strategy, the development of necessary ontologies, and the use of (named) graphs to support aforementioned use cases.
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1690/paper14.pdf
R2RML-F: Towards Sharing and Executing Domain Logic in R2RML MappingsChristophe Debruyne
Christophe Debruyne and Declan O'Sullivan: R2RML-F: Towards Sharing and Executing Domain Logic in R2RML Mappings
Paper presented at Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2016, collocated with WWW2016)
http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2016/papers/LDOW2016_paper_14.pdf
Towards a Project Centric Metadata Model and Lifecycle for Ontology Mapping G...Christophe Debruyne
Christophe Debruyne, Brian Walshe, Declan O'Sullivan: Towards a Project Centric Metadata Model and Lifecycle for Ontology Mapping Governance. Paper presented at iiWAS 2015 on the 13th of December 2015, Brussels, Belgium.
What is Linked Data?
Presented at the Linked Data for Libraries on Thursday, November 6, 2014 at Trinity College Dublin
http://www.dri.ie/linked-data-libraries
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
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Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
Using Semantic Technologies to Create Virtual Families from Historical Vital Records
1. Using Semantic Technologies to
Create Virtual Families from
Historical Vital Records!
Christophe Debruyne1,2, Oya Beyan1, Stefan Decker1 and Sandra Collins2!
!
1Insight @ NUI Galway!
2Digital Repository of Ireland!
!
2014-09-25 @ EUON 2014!
2. Irish Record Linkage, 1864-1913!
Developing a platform applying
semantic technologies to historical
birth, death and marriage certi!cates."
"
Answering questions such as: “How
accurate are historic maternal
mortality rates (MMR) and infant
mortality rates (IMR) for Dublin?”"
"
Team consists of researchers
(historians), digital archivists, and
knowledge engineers."
"
Knowledge and
Linked Data
Engineers!
Digital Historians!
Archivists!
4. Challenges!
• With respect to requirements!
– Identifying certi!ed causes of death that can be attributed to
maternal death."
– Death certi!cates with no corresponding birth certi!cate"
– Terminology used pre-1900. "
– Capturing the socio-economical status of the families via, for
instance, the professions, ranks of fathers."
– … "
• With respect to the platform!
– Data protection"
– Records vs. Knowledge"
– Provenance vs. Interpretation"
6. Development of 2 ontologies!
• 2 ontologies were developed – separation of concerns!
• First ontology for describing the contents of records!
– OWL 2 shallow, “#at ontology”"
– Created by “lifting” the structure of the vital records"
– (Marriage) Record, (Birth|Death) Certificate, Return!
• Second ontology for data analysis!
– OWL 2 + Rules to capture background and domain knowledge"
– Created by means of Competency Questions (Grüninger and Fox)"
– Person, Birth, Marriage, Death, withChild, motherOf, …!
Grüninger, M., Fox, M.S.: The role of competency questions in enterprise engineering. In: Benchmarking
Theory and Practice, pp. 22-31. Springer (1995)"
7. Tool for the Digital Archivist!
• Records are encoded using spreadsheets – a tool the digital archivist
is familiar with!
• RDB-to-RDF mapping "les were de"ned to generate RDF from the in-memory
databases created for each spreadsheet.!
8. Next steps!
• Encoding a signi"cant amount of vital records in the excel "les!
– To create the !rst triplestore; and"
– To obtain a dataset for validating the transformations; and"
– By consequence, validating the second ontology."
• To investigate proper interaction with the data for the historians.!
• Linking the data with additional context; i.e., Linked Logainm!
– http://data.logainm.ie/ "
– Nuno Lopes, Rebecca Grant, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Eoghan Ó Carragáin, Sandra Collins,
Stefan Decker: Linked Logainm: Enhancing Library Metadata Using Linked Data of Irish
Place Names. TPDL Workshops 2013: 65-76"
9. More information!
• @IRL_Project!
• Project website http://irishrecordlinkage.wordpress.com/ !
!
• In partnership with!